A Day In The Life Of The Wine Industry Club

Many of you might be wondering, “What do all those people who work in the wine industry actually do?”

Some of you might think we sit around drinking wine all day, eating cheese, snacking on cured meats, and listening to french music. Others of you might think we sit around drinking wine all day, reading volumes of wine books, writing lengthy tasting notes about each wine, and peel labels off the bottles to save them in a wine journal. And yet others may think we sit around drinking wine all day, staring out into the vastness of the local vineyards, sampling wines from the barrel, having snobby debates about the minute differences between this barrel and that, this vintage and lasts. And a select few might think we sit around drinking wine all day and blog about it 🙂

While all of the above are things we have done, we certainly don’t do them everyday, all day – we would be too lucky! And even if we did, we would never fess up to it because then everyone would leave their job and want to change over to a wine industry job and then we would have a world full of wine industry folk. Come to think of it, that is not a bad idea. Some people speak of a utopia, I speak of a winetopia!

Fantasies of winetopia aside, one of the things us wine industry folk do is go to portfolio tastings. In short, a wine distribution company holds a tasting of a majority of the wines they carry (esp new wines they have brought on) for their clients who buy wine from them i.e. restaurant managers/sommeliers, wine bar owners, wine shop owners, grocery store wine managers. A few weeks ago the wine distribution company Virtuoso Selections held their portfolio tasting in Austin, TX at the Saengerrunde Hall of Scholz Garten and they invited me to come out and taste wines to blog about them 🙂

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